Gillard gets a Crean slate, and Labor has no Rudd on its hands... and various other puns

22 March 2013 , 11:40 AM by Elliott Dunn

Well, wasn't that an interesting day at work for our federal pollies.

Simon Crean called the spill, the PM set the time. Tony Abbott moved for a vote of no confidence. Fire and brimstone and death stares were exchanged across the top of those very official looking books that sit in the middle of the House of Representatives.

But in the end, it ended with a very non-bang-like whimper. Actually, that would be overstating it. It ended with a the kind of noise that you make when you need to sneeze but you really can't afford to make any sound at all, because you're in the middle of a ceremonial minute's silence.

Anyway - unless you overdosed on early Easter chocolate and slept through the whole thing - you already know what happened.